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Section 32: Tenants deemed to have purchased land on tillers day.

The Maharashtra Tenancy and Agricultural Lands Act.State Act of Maharashtra · Act 67 of 1948

[(1)] On the first day of April 1957 (hereinafter referred to as "the tillers day") every tenant shall, [subject to the other provisions of this section and the provisions of] the next succeeding section, be deemed to have purchased from his landlord, free of all encumbrances subsisting thereon on the said day, the land held by him as tenant, if-

(a) such tenant is a permanent tenant thereof and cultivates land personally;

(b) such tenant is not a permanent tenant but cultivates the land leased personally; and

(i) the landlord has not given notice of termination of his tenancy under section 31; or

(ii) notice has been given under section 31, but the landlord has not applied to the Mamlatdar on or before the 31st day of March 1957 under section 29 for obtaining possession of the land &34567891011121314151617[(4) Where any land held by a tenant is wholly or partially, exempt from the payment of land revenue and is deemed to have been purchased by him under sub-section (1) or under section 32F, section 32O or section 33C then-

(a) the tenant-purchaser shall in respect of such land, be liable to pay the full land revenue leviable thereon, and

(b) the State Government shall, with effect from the date on which the tenant is deemed to have purchased the land, but so long only as the tenure on which the land was held by the landlord continues and is not abolished, pay annually to the former landlord,-

(i) where such land is wholly exempt from the payment of land revenue, a cash allowance of an amount equal to the full land revenue leviable on such land; and

(ii) in other cases, an amount equal to the difference between the full land revenue leviable on such land and the land revenue payable thereon immediately before the said date].

Where this provision sits

ActThe Maharashtra Tenancy and Agricultural Lands Act.
Section32
Marginal noteTenants deemed to have purchased land on tillers day.
JurisdictionState of Maharashtra
StatusIn force as published by the source
Judgments citing it1

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